Enacting Justice: Critical Literacy and Social Action Across Educational Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this interactive symposium, scholars, activists, and educators present their work in connection with the Teachers College Institute of Urban and Minority Education’s Cyphers for Justice (CFJ). CFJ supports collaborative research on critical literacies and social action by bringing together participatory youth research and social action projects in schools and communities throughout the city and state. Drawing from various disciplines and methodologies, presenters examine how action research programs develop youth’s critical literacies as well as promote social action and public scholarship within/beyond their communities. Building upon research as/with students, educators, and scholars in various institutions, the discussion will address broad implications for curriculum and pedagogy, teacher education, civic engagement, youth social action, and social justice writ large.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Chair

• Ernest D. Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• How Broken English Made Me Whole: Exploring Race, New Literacies, and Social Justice Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Framework - Jamila Lyiscott

• Creating Youth Historians: Historical Research as "Action" - Barry Goldenberg, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Hip-Hop Debate: Employing Orality, Critical Literacies, and Debating Social (In)Justices - Jennifer Kathleen Johnson, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Students and Preservice Teachers Becoming Critical Researchers in a Figured World of Youth Participatory Action Research - Limarys Caraballo, Queens College - CUNY

Discussant

• Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University